TY - JOUR
T1 - Power, discourse, and symbolic violence in professional youth soccer
T2 - The case of albion football club
AU - Cushion, Christopher
AU - Jones, Robyn L.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - A sociological analysis was conducted into the collective nature of coaching as manifest in the triangular interaction between coach, athlete, and context within English professional youth soccer. The work of Pierre Bourdieu is predominantly used to interpret data collected ethnographically over the course of a 10-month season. Findings show how an authoritarian discourse is established and maintained, how it is structured by and subsequently structures the coaching context, and how accompanying behaviors are misrecognized as legitimate by both coaches and players. We conclude by reflecting on the limits of such work and its implications for future coaching education.
AB - A sociological analysis was conducted into the collective nature of coaching as manifest in the triangular interaction between coach, athlete, and context within English professional youth soccer. The work of Pierre Bourdieu is predominantly used to interpret data collected ethnographically over the course of a 10-month season. Findings show how an authoritarian discourse is established and maintained, how it is structured by and subsequently structures the coaching context, and how accompanying behaviors are misrecognized as legitimate by both coaches and players. We conclude by reflecting on the limits of such work and its implications for future coaching education.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33748579358&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1123/ssj.23.2.142
DO - 10.1123/ssj.23.2.142
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33748579358
SN - 0741-1235
VL - 23
SP - 142
EP - 161
JO - Sociology of Sport Journal
JF - Sociology of Sport Journal
IS - 2
ER -
